The 16th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is around the corner and just days before the first delivery was set to be bowled, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was seen doing something unusual. The legendary cricketer, who will turn 42 this year, enjoyed spray-painting a…
American multinational company Coca-Cola on Monday (27) said it and its bottling partners are making significant investments in India which has reached an inflection point supported by infrastructure expansion, rural electrification and digitisation, the Hindu BusinessLine reported. The company, which divested its company-owned bottling operations in north India four years…
The Supreme Court of India on Monday (27) questioned whether the release of 11 convicted men in the Bilkis Bano case was done as per remission standards on other such cases and asked both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Delhi and in the western state of Gujarat to…
The term 'third front' gains traction whenever a national election is around the corner in India and it is no exception in the run-up to the 2024 general polls. By 'third front', it is generally meant that the countries' political parties, which do not want to form an alliance with…
Just days after he was disqualified as a member of the Indian parliament following his conviction by a court in the western state of Gujarat over a four-year-old remark allegedly defaming the Modi surname while targeting prime minister Narendra Modi, Indian National Congress Rahul Gandhi changed his bio on Twitter…
A new research from think tank Phoenix Insights, which involves analysis of its Longer Lives Index data, has shown that while pension participation among ethnic minorities is lower than the average, the non-pension sources are expected to play a key role in funding retirement of these groups. Compared to the…
Authorities in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh on Saturday (25) suspended a police officer for harassing, manhandling, and arresting Hindus for allegedly “violating” a law forbidding eating or drinking in public during the holy month of Ramadan, according to a media report. The action was taken when a video went…
India has requested its northern neighbour Nepal not to allow fugitive radical preacher Amritpal Singh, who has escaped the country's police after they launched a manhunt on March 18 and is believed to be hiding in the Himalayan nation, to flee to a third country. It has also arrested the…
India's highways infrastructure will match that of the United States by 2024 for which work in time bound 'mission mode' is on including construction of green expressways and rail over bridges, India's road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said. He said the cabinet nod to 'Bharatmala 2' -- the…
The Narendra Modi government has not intervened in the Adani Group fiasco over a report by US short seller Hindenburg Research which caused a mayhem in the Indian conglomerate's shares, Sanjeev Sanyal, an economic adviser to the prime minister, said. According to Bloomberg, Sanyal, who is a member of the…